DEAR HARRIETTE: Since we have been living in quarantine, my older sister and brother have come back to live with us. I went into my sister’s room the other day and noticed that she had a stash of weed and pills in her room. I don’t want to be a tattletale, but it kind of freaked me out. She has been acting weird, but I just thought she was mad because she had to stay with us instead of at college. Weed is one thing, but she had Oxy too. I think I should tell my mother, but I don’t want to cause a huge family fight. What should I do?

Surrounded by family members, Dale Oden, minister of pastoral care at Temple Baptist Church, marked his 80th birthday Thursday with a drive-thru celebration that snaked through Savannah Trace for more than an hour. A Ruston fixture since joining the Temple staff in February of 1976, Oden was scheduled to observe this milestone birthday while in Germany with others from the church family during a trip to the historic Oberammergau Passion Play. With the trip postponed until 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Oden enjoyed scores of well wishes from longtime friends within the Lincoln Parish community.

When the Lincoln Parish School Board meets in person tonight for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began, it will hear a sales tax report that’s much less negative than previously projected.